Modernism

Critics

• The Lure of the City

  We have a troubled relationship with cities. The word civilisation has its roots in the civitas, yet these crucibles of culture have almost always been viewed simultaneously as festering pustules of poverty and corruption. The pendulum swings and, at ... (read full critics)

  ft published on Sat, 19 Nov 2011

• What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici

  Good question. Last year it looked as though the literary establishment might have been on the point of recognising the influence of Modernism: Tom McCarthy on the Booker shortlist, this book making a bit of a splash ... and then this year it all wen ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Wed, 9 Nov 2011

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• Critical introduction/comment(s):

  The literature of the period 1890-1930 is in many of its features still very much our literature. Few periods contain such an extraordinary wealth of major innovative writers…and few have to such an extent broken down traditional national frontiers in matters of literary and cultural concern.

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  The literature of the period 1890-1930 is in many of its features still very much our literature. Few periods contain such an extraordinary wealth of major innovative writers…and few have to such an extent broken down traditional national frontiers in matters of literary and cultural concern.

  Apart from the texts themselves, this book examines the ideas, the groupings and the social tensions out of which Modernism emerged. It identifies those elements of shock and crisis crucial to stylistic development, and provides biographies of its leading exponents together with extensive bibliographical material.

  Finally, the contributors to this book raise questions about the nature of critical analysis itself and the kinds of analysis to which this disturbing literature might be thought susceptible.

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• English Books
• Paperback 688 Pages
• Edition: Rev Ed
• ISBN-10: 0140138323
• ISBN-13: 9780140138320
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
• Pub date: Jun 29, 1978
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?

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